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Vazquez-Marin, Pedro; Cuadrado, Francisco; Lopez-Cobo, Isabel – Education Sciences, 2022
Positive education, as a method for the positive development of students' personality, embodies the 24 character strengths that Peterson and Seligman developed in their studies and that are necessary for new professional profiles. This new social and work landscape inspired supranational institutions, such as the European Union, to develop…
Descriptors: Art Education, Personality Development, Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits
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Madsen, Ulla Ambrosius; Carney, Stephen – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2011
This paper challenges us to consider the meaning of schooling for youth in the global south. We explore the ways in which young people living and learning on the outskirts of Kathmandu balance the visions and passions of modern schooling with social realities that are often quite incompatible. We depart from conventional analyses of modernity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postmodernism, Youth Problems, Youth Opportunities
Herman, William E.; Herman, Bryan K.; Sanatullova-Allison, Elvira – Online Submission, 2007
This paper employed a psychological-historical framework for an analytical examination of the Russian identity during the Soviet period through the fall of the Soviet Union and the transitional period that led to an establishment of the Russian Federation. A theoretical model is provided for the analysis of Russian identity that can be generalized…
Descriptors: European History, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Values
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Hussain, Khuram – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
This paper offers a theoretical comparison of the concept of the individual presumed in modern Islamic educational theory and western moral educational theory, revealing a distinct Islamic point of view on the western educational premise that a moral universe is derived dialectically between individual and society. From an Islamic perspective,…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Muslims, Moral Development, Educational Theories